I'm running Vivid + Stable overlay PPA. For me, though, the really interesting part is that even using the Android SDK tools manually is unreliable:
$ fastboot flash recovery ~/Downloads/recovery-arale.img ERROR: usb_read failed with status e00002ed ERROR: usb_read failed with status e000404f sending 'recovery' (10672 KB)... ERROR: usb_read failed with status e000404f FAILED (status read failed (No such file or directory)) finished. total time: 0.000s If I can't reliably push things using fastboot, that rules out anything specific to Ubuntu on the device. And because this only started a month or so ago, it makes me think that some sort of low level firmware type upgrade was flashed. I don't even know if we do that sort of thing, but it's definitely what it feels like. On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 2:34 PM, John McAleely <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems possible to me there are several different problems, all > manifesting as 'flashing is unstable'. > > FWIW, I flash a *lot* of devices and flash cycles, and on two machines > (Macbook Pro 10,2; Lenovo workstation; both Trusty) my experience is > rock-solid. My experience is dominated by krillin/vegetahd, but I have > flashed a number of arale, nexus and other devices. I use the MTK flashing > tools also, both from Ubuntu (often fails on first flash, fine second and > subsequent) and Windows VMs. > > When we've asked for support for this from OEMs, they've struggled to > reproduce the problem(s). Among their engineering teams, the experience is > that flashing via USB works well. > > As a community I'd expect us to be more diverse than OEM engineering teams > in our versions of Ubuntu & the kernel in use, and also host hardware > systems. Clearly any problem emerging from that diversity could be on the > host pc or the devices. > > So, for those experiencing problems, what versions of host-side software > do you run? > > On 8 September 2015 at 14:16, Pawel Stolowski < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> ubuntu-device-flash has never been reliable for me either. Oftentimes it >> fails to push at some point. In such case I always wipe all the >> ~/.cache/ubuntuimages contents and after that it works.... >> >> Pawel >> >> >> On 08.09.2015 15:02, Kyle Fazzari wrote: >> >>> On 09/07/2015 4:17 PM, Pete Woods wrote: >>> >>>> I have a co-worker who also cannot flash his Krillin in the same manner >>>> as >>>> I cannot flash my Arale. This is with an Ubuntu supported Dell laptop. >>>> >>> That's me. I'm using a Dell M3800 running Ubuntu natively. My u-d-f logs >>> look pretty much identical to Pete's, but I'm using a krillin. I've >>> spent an entire day trying to flash again and again, given up in >>> frustration, and then have it work first try in the morning. It's >>> incredibly unreliable. >>> >>> I've had no trouble using `fastboot boot`, but 99% of the time when I >>> flash with u-d-f it errors out while pushing files. I did try the >>> Mediatek flashing tool and it didn't work any better in my case-- I >>> tried it three or four times, each time failing after getting to a >>> different percentage (never more than 5% or so). >>> >>> This really does seem to have been happening recently, since a few >>> months ago I was able to repartition and flash reliably. I've tried >>> switching out USB cables to no avail. >>> >>> -- >>> Kyle Fazzari (kyrofa) >>> Software Engineer >>> Canonical Ltd. >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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